Skin Society facialist April Russell has an impressive CV, a snazzy new machine and a new Thame town centre location. Kerry Potter rocks up to test out the HydraFacial - and emerges looking like J.Lo. Result!

Facialist Sarah Virgo counts Elton John, no less, among her clients. Muddy drops in to her swish Goring salon to get the gossip (darn, she's far too discreet) and comes out looking 15 years younger. Result!

Here I am being fat-zapped by lasers. A few months ago I wrote about my first of two treatments of Sculpsure, a new fat-blasting treatment being offered by Beaconsfield aesthetic clinic S-thetics that destroys up to 24% of your fat cells forever in the process in just 25 minutes. Yeah go on, get your head around that statistic for a second! Well, I've now had a second treatment and the Muddy verdict is in. So, is Sculpsure worth it?

Bloomtown Botanicals is less than a year old and is already making waves in the super-competitive beauty world with its ethical plant-based skincare products. The Cornish company won multiple categories in this year’s Beauty Shortlist Awards and we want the whole goddam range.

This is the ideal time of year to do some at-home beauty pampering and maintenance - after all, it's not like all your friends are having wild nights out without you (you're not guys, are you? ARE YOU?). What's more, I find it's around now that my nails, hair and skin all need some serious TLC in the face of plunging temperatures, fierce central heating and my abject laziness on everything beauty-self-help related.
So where to start? Beauty entrepreneur Charlie Fowler seems like a good place to head for advice on how to do a DIY winter beauty MOT...